Lifting Engineering Operations & Works
Lifting engineering, planning and operations — offshore wind, construction, civils, rail. Worldwide.
What we do
Independent lifting engineering, from a second pair of eyes on a lift plan to full planning and supervision of the operation itself.
Independent lifting-engineering advice when you need certainty — before the crane is on hire and long before the load leaves the ground.
Appointed Person-led planning to BS 7121 — every lift categorised, engineered and documented so the team on the day has no open questions.
For select operations we stay for the lift itself — supervising execution so the plan on paper is the lift that happens.
How we work
Compliance isn't paperwork bolted onto a lift — it's how a lift is engineered. Everything we plan and supervise is built on two foundations:
The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations require every lifting operation to be properly planned by a competent person, appropriately supervised, and carried out safely. That planning duty is the core of what we do.
The Code of practice for the safe use of cranes defines how lifting operations should be organised — roles, responsibilities, lift categorisation and control. Our lift plans and site supervision follow it as the working standard.
Every operation gets a documented lift plan with supporting risk assessments and method statements: load, rigging, equipment, exclusion zones, communications and contingencies — engineered, not templated.
BS 7121 places control of the lifting operation with a competent Appointed Person. We take that duty personally: planning, briefing and supervising with clear accountability, and being honest about competence limits — ours and anyone else's.
Where we work
Different environments, same discipline: plan the lift properly, prove it on paper, control it on the day.
Turbine installation and major component exchange, marshalling harbours, jack-up and vessel-based lifting — planned around weather windows, deck layouts and marine coordination.
Tower cranes, mobiles and crawlers on live sites — steel erection, modular installs and tandem lifts planned to keep programmes moving without cutting corners.
Bridge beams, precast segments, tunnel components and heavy plant — high-consequence lifts where ground conditions and temporary works matter as much as the crane.
Lifting inside possessions and alongside live infrastructure — planned to rail industry constraints, with the timings, isolations and interfaces engineered in from the start.
Field-earned, not desk-learned
Leow Lifting exists because good lifting operations are engineered twice: once on paper, and again in the real conditions of the day. We've done both — planning lifts at the desk and standing on deck while they happen.
Our background is hands-on: offshore wind campaigns including major component exchange from jack-up vessels, and lifting operations across construction, civils and rail. That field time is why our lift plans work on the day — they're written by people who have had to execute them.
We're a UK company working worldwide, and deliberately small: when you engage Leow Lifting, the person who plans your lift is the person accountable for it.
Get in touch
Tell us about the operation — sector, location, rough timescale — and we'll come back to you promptly.